Font smoothing doesn't work

Font smoothing suddenly stopped working on one of my G4's, no mather the settings in appearance.
- I have 2 totally equally configuered G4's, the second one is fine. I swapped display and video card, no result.
- Strange: If I log in as root, smoothing works fine! So I suppose, it may be some kind of a corrupt preference file? Only I have no idea which one!
Thanks in advance for a good advice!
G4 1.25 Dual, 2 GB Mac OS X (10.4.9)

By trial and error I finally was able to isolate the culprit:
com.apple.universalaccess.plist
I trashed this pref file, logged out and in and :)))

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